Studies in the History of Culture and Science: A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal.

Fontaine, Resianne; Glasner, Ruth; Leicht, Reimund, and Veltri, Giuseppe, edited by.

ISBN 10: 9004191232 / ISBN 13: 9789004191235

Edité par Brill, Leiden, 2011

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Octavo, illsutrated paper covered boards, frontispiece photo, xviii, 492 pp., index, Selected Publcations of Gad Freudenthal Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume 30. Articles are "Le pseudo al-Hasan ibn al-Haytam: sur l'asymptote, Roshdi Rashed, "Al-Qabisi's Introduction to Astrology: from Courtly Entertainment to University Textbook," Charles Burnett, "A Different Hue to Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Four Investigations into an Unstudied Philosophical Text," Y. Tzvi Langermann, "Aristotle's De anima and De generatione et corruptione in the Medieval Hebrew Tradition: New Details Regarding Textual History Coming from a Neglected Manuscript," Mauro Zonta, "La mesure du cercle d'Archimede au moyen age : le temoignage des textes hebreux," Tony Levy, "Un traite judeo-arabe sur les vertus du tabac redige dans la main du Sayh Sufi 'Abd al-Gani an-Nabulusi," Paul B. Fenton, "Maimonides and Samuel Ben Ali," Herbert A. Davidson, "Ibn Rusd and the Almohad Context," Josep Puig Montada, "Legislating Truth: Maimonides, the Almohads and the Thirteenth-Century Jewish Enlightenment," Carlos Fraenkel, "The Money language: Latin and Hebrew in Jewish Legal Contracts from Medieval England," Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, "Nahmanides on Necromancy," Reimund Leicht, "The First Survey of the Metaphysics in Hebrew," Resianne Fontaine, "Solomon ben Moses Melguiri and the Transmission of Knowledge from Latin into Hebrew," Hagar Kahana-Smilansky, "Dialectic in Gersonides' Biblical Commentaries," Sara Klein-Braslavy, "Demonstrative Astronomy: Notes on Levi ben Gersom's answer to Guide II.24," Jose Luis Mancha, "Nicole Oresme and Hasdai Crescas on Many Worlds," Warren Zev Harvey, "The Peculiar History of Aristotelianism among Spanish Jews," Ruth Glasner, "Duhem's Continuity Thesis: The Intrusion of Ideology into History of Science," Bernard R. Goldstein and Giora Hon, "Enlightenment in Gold," Gideon Freudenthal, "A Bestseller in Context: Referring to the Tsene Rene in Early Modern Yiddish Books," Shlomo Berger, "On Humanist Logic Judaized-Then and Now: Two Models for the Appropriation of Gentile Science," Charles Manekin, "Hebrew "Sociolinguistics," Irene E. Zwiep,

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• Titre: Studies in the History of Culture and Science: A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal.
• Éditeur: Brill, Leiden
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9004191232
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789004191235
• Reliure: Hardbound
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,

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Resianne Fontaine is University Lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.Her fields of research are medieval Jewish philosophy and the history of science in medieval Judaism. She has edited Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew version of Aristotle's Meteorology. She currently prepares an edition of parts of the Midrash ha-Hokhmah. Ruth Glasner, is Professor of history of science at the Hebrew University and specialist in ancient and medieval science. She is especially interested in the genre of the philosophical-scientific commentary. She published a book Averroes' Physics (2009), and a book in Hebrew A Fourteenth-Century Scientific Philosophical Controversy (1998). She is preparing a book on Gersonides. Reimund Leicht, is Senior Lecturer for Jewish Thought and History of Sciences at the Hebrew University Jerusalem. He has published on subjects related to Jewish cultural history in late Antiquity, on Jewish Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages and on Johannes Reuchlin, including Verzeichnis der Hebraica in der Bibliothek Johannes Reuchlins (2005, with v. Abel) and Astrologumena Judaica (2006). Giuseppe Veltri, is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Zunz Centre (Halle). He has published widely in the subjects of hermeneutics and philosophy including Gegenwart der Tradition (2002), Cultural Intermediaries (2004 with D. Ruderman); Libraries, Translation and 'Canonic texts' (2006); The Jewish Body (2008, with M. Diemling); Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (2009).